N-able Security
SentinelOne-powered EDR plus the Adlumin platform — XDR, MDR, identity detection, SIEM support, SOAR and pen testing — so you can sell managed security without building a SOC. The catch is not the capability: it is what the service commits to in writing.
Data residency & processing
Two separate questions here, and both need answers. First, where the SOC analysts watching your clients actually sit — which is NOT answered by N-able’s Bengaluru GCC, an engineering and support centre of 100+ staff opened June 2026. Ask explicitly. Second, where security telemetry, detection data and anything fed into the SIEM rests. For a product that ingests logs by design, that matters more than usual: get the storage region and the sub-processor list in writing before you sign.
On CERT-In: the 180-day ICT log duty applies to you as the regulated entity, not to N-able. CERT-In’s own FAQ permits storage outside India provided logs are producible to the authorities in reasonable time — but if you are IRDAI-regulated, the 2023 audit annexure asks as a plain yes/no whether ICT logs are stored in India, and that is where an offshore region actually costs you.
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The N-able platform family
This page covers N-able Security — EDR, MDR and XDR. The rest of the portfolio:
Quick facts
30-second orientation- Product
- N-able Security — EDR, MDR, XDR, ITDR, SOAR
- Vendor
- N-able (NYSE: NABL) — spun out of SolarWinds 2021
- The category
- Managed detection & response for MSPs
- The pivot
- Adlumin acquired Nov 2024 — up to $266M
- What it bought
- Cloud-native XDR and MDR, from an existing partner
- EDR engine
- SentinelOne-powered — not N-able's own detection
- The proposition
- Sell a security service without building a SOC
- THE question
- What does the MDR service COMMIT to, in writing?
- In preview
- Vulnerability Management — confirm before pricing it in
- Pricing
- QUOTE-ONLY — a separate product from the RMM
- Vs
- Huntress, Arctic Wolf, SentinelOne direct, CrowdStrike
- In India via
- TechBag — scoping, licensing, local support, GST
Understand managed detection before you buy it
Most product pages skip this. We start here — so you buy a capability, not a buzzword.
What is N-able Security?
SentinelOne-powered EDR, managed EDR and threat hunting, plus the Adlumin platform — XDR, MDR, ITDR, SIEM support, SOAR and pen testing — bought for up to $266M in November 2024.
Building a SOC vs buying the service — the honest table
What consolidation actually replaces, dimension by dimension.
| Dimension | Building it yourself | N-able Security (N-able) |
|---|---|---|
| Offering security | Build a SOC, or decline the work | Resell under your own brand |
| 24/7 coverage | A rota you cannot staff | Someone else's analysts |
| Detection surfaces | Endpoint only | Endpoint, identity, network, cloud |
| The EDR engine | (varies) | SentinelOne-powered — known quality |
| Vendor relationships | A separate security vendor | Beside the RMM you already run |
| What decides fit | The feature list | The service commitment, in writing |
| Who your client holds | (they hold you either way) | YOU — so read the commitment |
| Pricing | (varies) | Quote-only, separate from the RMM |
The Adlumin acquisition (November 2024, up to $266M) gave N-able a genuine XDR and MDR platform, so an MSP can sell managed security without building a SOC. Honest notes: the EDR engine is SentinelOne’s rather than N-able’s own; the integration is only eighteen months old; Vulnerability Management was in preview — confirm before pricing it in; and the SOC analysts’ location is a separate question from the Bengaluru engineering centre. The commitment document decides the fit, not the module list.
The five pieces of the platform
Vendors love diagrams; buyers need to know what they’re actually operating. Here’s the whole platform, demystified.
EDR, SentinelOne-Powered
EDR built on SentinelOne’s engine, packaged and run through N-able’s console. If you already run SentinelOne directly, check what the packaging adds.
Managed EDR & Threat Hunting
EDR raises alerts; managed EDR means someone watches them, and threat hunting looks for what they missed. Ask who watches, when, and how fast they act.
The Adlumin Platform
Cloud-native extended detection and response, plus managed detection, identity threat detection, SIEM support, automation and pen testing, acquired in November 2024.
Correlation Across Surfaces
Attacks move from endpoint to identity to lateral movement; correlating those surfaces catches sequences one alone misses, but only for the surfaces you feed it.
Sold As A Service You Resell
You sell managed security without building a SOC, which most MSPs cannot justify. Your client’s recourse is to you, so the service commitment matters most.
Telemetry from endpoints, cloud and network in one place — threats matched up once instead of chased across dashboards.
Twelve capabilities. Detect, investigate, respond.
N-able lets an MSP resell managed detection and response under its own brand — without hiring analysts or running a 24/7 rota — the security line of the N-able portfolio.
Endpoint Detection & Response
Behavioural detection beyond signature antivirus, using SentinelOne’s engine delivered through N-able’s console.
Managed EDR
Analysts watch the alerts instead of leaving them in a queue; here the questions shift from features to commitments.
Proactive Threat Hunting
Hunting for what the alerts missed; its value depends on the people, so ask who they are and how often they hunt.
Extended Detection & Response
The Adlumin platform correlates endpoint, identity, network and cloud, catching sequences one surface misses, if you feed it all.
Managed Detection & Response
Detection, investigation and response by someone else’s analysts. Get response time, coverage hours and escalation in writing.
Identity Threat Detection & Response
Watches identity systems for compromise, since most serious intrusions involve a valid credential at some point.
SIEM Support
Log aggregation and correlation for compliance and post-incident investigation; often a box regulated clients must tick.
Security Orchestration & Automation
Automated response so containment does not wait for a human to wake; how far it acts unsupervised is your policy call.
Penetration Testing
Penetration testing as a service shows what an attacker would find, a different question from what monitoring has seen.
Vulnerability Management (Preview)
Vulnerability identification and prioritisation, in preview at the time of writing; confirm availability before selling it.
Sits Beside N-central And N-sight
A separate product from the RMM, often bundled in one quote; price the whole basket against a rival’s all-in security bundle.
Bengaluru Engineering & Support
N-able’s Bengaluru centre opened in June 2026 with 100+ staff for engineering and support; ask separately where the SOC analysts sit.
Watch the N-able platform in action
The security stack, demonstrated.
Demo of N-able Vulnerability Management
In preview — confirm availability before pricing it in.
Linux Patch Management in N-central & N-sight
Patching is the other half of a security posture.
Linux Patch Management in N-central
The RMM platform this line sits alongside.
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Here’s what genuinely sets it apart — and the one document that decides whether it works for you.
Sell a security service without building a SOC — the real proposition
Clients, insurers and auditors increasingly want managed security, but a 24-hour SOC is beyond most MSPs. N-able lets you resell SentinelOne-powered EDR, managed EDR, threat hunting and the Adlumin platform under your own brand, keeping the client and margin. The catch: your client holds you, not Adlumin, to the commitment.
The module list is not the product — the commitment is
When you resell MDR, your client’s contract is with you. Get in writing the response time (target or obligation), analyst hours, the escalation path, what analysts may do unilaterally, and holiday cover. If you sell a one-hour response and the service commits to four, you absorb a three-hour gap on every incident.
What the Adlumin acquisition actually changed
In November 2024 N-able bought Adlumin, already a partner, for up to $266 million, a big bet for a company with roughly $500 million in revenue. It added XDR, MDR, identity threat detection, SIEM support, automation and pen testing, so the security line is owned. The EDR is still SentinelOne-powered; probe how unified the console is.
The EDR is SentinelOne — know what you are buying
N-able’s EDR runs SentinelOne’s detection engine, with N-able adding multi-tenancy, billing, console integration and an optional managed service. Detection quality is SentinelOne’s, which is independently assessed. If you need none of that packaging, buying SentinelOne directly may be simpler and cheaper.
The honest scope
The security line spans SentinelOne-powered EDR, managed EDR and the Adlumin platform (up to $266 million, November 2024), letting an MSP resell security without a SOC. Huntress is narrower and MSP-native, Arctic Wolf is dedicated MDR, CrowdStrike is the enterprise standard. Get the service commitment in writing; it decides the fit.
The numbers behind the platform
What your Security — EDR, MDR & XDR evaluation looks like
Write down what YOU promise clients
Write down the response times, coverage hours and escalation you promise clients; that is the specification for any MDR service.
Get THEIR commitment in writing
Get response time (target or obligation), coverage hours, 3am escalation, unilateral actions, holiday cover and analyst location.
Hold the two documents side by side
If you promise one hour and they commit to four, you absorb the gap; fix it now. Confirm Vulnerability Management has left preview.
Review after the first real incident
After your first real incident, compare it with what was promised and renegotiate any gap; TechBag invoices in INR with GST.
The review scoreboard
Modelled on Gartner Peer Insights structure. *Counts and breakdowns are illustrative pending verified review collection.
Quick poll — what’s driving your evaluation?
Talk to an advisor“We lost deals without managed security and couldn’t justify hiring analysts. Reselling this let us say yes to that work.”
“Holding their response-time commitment against what we promised clients exposed a two-hour gap, fixed before it bit us.”
“SentinelOne-powered EDR means the detection quality is known rather than a leap of faith. We already trusted that engine.”
“We compared it with Huntress and chose Huntress: narrower, MSP-native, with a channel reputation we valued. TechBag showed both.”
“Ask how integrated Adlumin really is with the console. It’s recent, and the demo answer was more nuanced than the marketing.”
“Vulnerability Management was in preview, and we nearly priced it into a proposal. Confirm availability before selling anything.”
“For a security service, where analysts sit matters as much as engineering. We asked rather than assuming Bengaluru answered it.”
“The security line sits beside the RMM our team already runs, so no second vendor to learn. Underrated, and obvious by month two.”
Where everyone sits — the grids
Analyst firms bury this view behind paywalls, and review-site grids score satisfaction, not fit for your estate. So here’s TechBag’s synthesis of the MDR & XDR market — tap any vendor to see why it sits where it does.
TechBag MDR & XDR Grid
Execution strength vs product vision — the classic market map, minus the paywall.
Broad stack beside an RMM. This page's product.
Detection Depth × Service Commitment
The grid nobody publishes — how deep the detection goes vs what the service actually commits to.
Broad; the commitment document decides the fit.
Positions are TechBag’s illustrative synthesis of public review-platform data and vendor documentation — not a reproduction of any analyst graphic. Verify before relying on it.
N-able Security vs the MDR field
Huntress, Arctic Wolf, SentinelOne direct, CrowdStrike and Sophos MDR — honest lanes. The edge here is breadth plus adjacency to an RMM you already run. Want narrower and MSP-native? Huntress often wins, and we say so.
| Dimension | N-able Security | Huntress | Arctic Wolf | SentinelOne direct | CrowdStrike | Sophos MDR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Position | Broad stack beside an RMM | MSP-native, deliberately narrow | Dedicated MDR, concierge model | The EDR engine, bought direct | The enterprise standard | MDR beside a security portfolio |
| Resell under your brand | Yes — the proposition | Yes — MSP-native | Partner programmes | Via MSP programmes | Via partners | Yes |
| Breadth (XDR, ITDR, SOAR, pen test) | Broad — Adlumin platform | Deliberately narrow | MDR-focused | EDR/XDR, no managed service | Very broad | Broad |
| EDR engine origin | SentinelOne, licensed | Own + partners | Vendor-agnostic | Own — it IS the engine | Own | Own |
| MSP channel reputation | Growing since Adlumin | Very strong | Enterprise-leaning | Engine-led | Enterprise-leaning | Strong |
| Sits beside your RMM | Yes — same vendor as N-central/N-sight | Integrates | Separate relationship | Integrates | Integrates | Own portfolio |
| Best fit | MSPs adding security beside an N-able RMM | MSPs wanting narrow, MSP-native security | When MDR is the whole purchase | When you need the engine, not the service | Enterprise depth and budget | MDR inside a wider security portfolio |
Which approach fits you?
Honest fit signals — because the fastest way to lose your trust is to pretend one product wins every scenario.
Choose N-able Security if…
- ✓You want to sell a managed security service without building a security operations centre
- ✓You already run N-central or N-sight and want the security line beside it rather than as a second vendor
- ✓You need breadth — XDR, identity detection, SIEM support, SOAR and pen testing from one place
- ✓AND the service commitment you get in writing matches what you have promised your own clients
Huntress if…
- ✓You want something deliberately narrower, MSP-native and with a very strong channel reputation — the most common alternative, and often the right one
Arctic Wolf if…
- ✓MDR is the whole purchase rather than an attach to an RMM — a mature dedicated provider with a concierge model
SentinelOne direct if…
- ✓You need the engine rather than the service, and do not need the multi-tenancy and packaging N-able adds
Wait if…
- ✓You cannot get response times, analyst coverage hours and escalation paths in writing — without that document you are absorbing an unknown gap personally
N-able Security is one of 19 managed detection & response products TechBag carries. The MDR guide narrows them to a shortlist and shows the reasoning. →
What does building your own SOC cost you?
Drag the sliders (endpoint count; analyst hourly cost as a loaded rate). Estimates contrast building the capability — analysts on a 24/7 rota, tooling, threat intelligence — against reselling a managed service. For most MSPs the build option is not merely expensive but genuinely unreachable, which is the real point rather than the arithmetic. NB: this model prices CAPABILITY, not the commitment gap — if the service commits to less than you promised your clients, that gap costs you on every incident and appears nowhere here. Illustrative.
Loaded cost = salary + overheads per productive hour. Illustrative only — your TechBag quote models your actual environment and modules.
Three ways to consume it
Quote-only, and a SEPARATE product from the N-central and N-sight RMM platforms — commonly bundled into one quote, which makes comparison harder, so price the whole basket. EDR is typically per endpoint; the managed services price by their own logic. What to establish beyond the number: what incident response is included versus chargeable (where MDR contracts most often surprise people), whether pen testing is included or per-engagement, and what happens commercially DURING a major incident. Confirm whether Vulnerability Management has left preview before pricing it in. TechBag obtains the quote and invoices in INR with GST.
N-able Security
Best for MSPs adding a security line
- QUOTE-ONLY — EDR typically per endpoint; managed services priced separately
- SentinelOne-powered EDR + the Adlumin XDR/MDR platform
- A SEPARATE product from the RMM — price the whole basket
+ Platform add-ons
Best for a broader rollout
- Scoped to your estate
- Add-on modules as needed
- Phased, right-sized deployment
+ the commitment
Best read before you resell it
- Response times, coverage hours and escalation paths — IN WRITING
- What analysts do unilaterally, and what happens on public holidays
- TechBag holds it against what YOU have promised your clients
Buy it for less — TechBag pricing beats list
Whatever the list prices above, TechBag negotiates a significantly better deal — with GST-compliant INR invoicing and local support. Ask us for your discounted quote.
Get an India-ready quote
Tell us your requirements and current tools — we’ll model it against what you spend today.
The 8 questions to ask every vendor
Take this into your next vendor call — including ours.
What response time and coverage have you sold your clients? That is the specification this service must meet.
Do you have response times, analyst coverage hours and escalation paths in writing?
Held side by side, is their commitment at least as strong as the promise you made your clients?
What can the analysts do WITHOUT waiting for you? Containment that waits for a sleeping human is not containment.
Where do the analysts watching your clients actually work? That is a different question from where the Bengaluru engineering centre is.
Vulnerability Management was in preview. Have you confirmed general availability before pricing anything into a client proposal?
Adlumin was acquired in Nov 2024. How unified is it with the rest of the console, really? Ask in the demo rather than assuming.
Have you compared Huntress, the MSP-native, deliberately narrower alternative with a strong channel reputation?
Questions buyers ask
Ready to read the commitment, not the feature list?
Write down what you have promised your own clients, get N-able's response times, analyst coverage hours and escalation paths in writing, and hold the two documents side by side. Any gap is one you absorb personally. Or let a TechBag advisor obtain that document and scope it honestly against Huntress and Arctic Wolf — we sell those too, and have recommended each.
Stats, ratings, review counts and pricing are illustrative and sourced from public materials; verify before purchase.